---
title: "Why Choose Node.js for Backend Web Development?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-choose-node-js-for-backend-web-development--ufmhpyqw6
source_url: https://dzone.com/articles/why-choose-nodejs-for-backend-web-development-in-2
type: article
source: "DZone"
published: 2022-01-01T02:02:15.392Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:31:39.365Z
tags: ["backend", "general-programming", "javascript", "nodejs", "webdev"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 18
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Why Choose Node.js for Backend Web Development?

**[DZone](https://daily.dev/sources/dz)** · 3 min read · 18 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Node.js is an open-source JavaScript engine, as it has been developed on V8. NestJS is a superset of programming languages of JavaScript, which is strongly categorized as TypeScript. Electron facilitates desktop apps development by authorizing programmers to compose these applications in web languages like HTML5 and CSS.

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